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Undergraduate Course Descriptions
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2209161* Introduction to Language 3(3-0-6)
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The nature and the function of language as well as the important
features of language from the linguistic, philosophical, aesthetic,
cultural, social, scientific, and modern technological points of view.
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2209201Introduction to Linguistics 3(3-0-6)
- Definition and boundary of linguistics; history of linguistics :
the relationship between linguistics and other sciences : fundamental
concepts of descriptive linguistics; comparative and historical
linguistics.
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2209303 Sounds and sound system 3(3-0-6)
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Mechanisms of speech sound production; sound system in various
languages; sounds and meanings in words, sentences, and utterances.
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2209304 Grammatical System 3(3-0-6)
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Concepts of words, phrases, and sentences; word, phrase, and sentence
structures; parts of speech; grammatical categories; relationship of
words in a phrase; relationship of phrases in a sentence; analysis of
the grammatical system in intermediate-level data from various
languages.
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2209305 Meaning in Language3(3-0-6)
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Definition of linguistic meaning; different types of lexical meaning;
approaches in determining lexical meaning; semantic fields; synonymy,
antonymy, and homonymy.
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2209306 Langauge Change 3(3-0-6)
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Traces of langauge change; linguistic communities; causes of language changes; sound change; lexical change; syntactic change
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2209341 Language in Thai Society 3(3-0-6)
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Structure of the language used in Thai society; structure of Thai
society : relationship between language change caused by social and
geographical factors; language development and the development of the
nation.
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2209344 Linguistics and Translation 3(3-0-6)
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Knowlege of characteristics and phenomena in language derived from
linguistics studies serving as a foundation for translation.
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2209373 Language and Culture 3(3-0-6)
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Characteristics of language and culture; language and world view;
grammatical and cultural categories; theories and research on color
terms, kinship terms, and metaphor; language and gender; linguistic and
cultural systems of various communities.
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2209374 Language and Computer 3(3-0-6)
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Representation of languages in the computer; computer processing of
natural languages; comparison between computer languages and natural
languages; use of computers in language study.
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2209483 Linguistics and Language Learning 3(3-0-6)
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Processes in learning both native and non-native language; linguistics
theories and teaching approaches; methods and techniques in language
teaching; linguistic components and other factors related to language
learning; language teaching policy.
Gradute Course Descriptions
- 2209501* Phonetics
PHONETICS
All
aspects of phonetics: articulatory, acoustic, and auditory; phonetic
notations and transcription; ear training and performance.
2209511* Phonology
PHONOLOGY
Introduction to phonemic and non-phonemic
phonological theories; major issues in the selected theories; practicum
in phonological analysis using the methodology of each theory;
discussion on their different approaches and solutions in phonological
analysis.
2209520 Morphology and Syntax
MORPH SYN
Morphology processes; word
formation; grammatical categories; syntactic relations; morphological
and syntactic analyses of language data.
2209530 Semantics and Pragmatics
SEMAN PRAG
Relationship
between form and meaning; referential and conceptual meaning;
meaning of linguistic units at the lexical, phrasal, propositional and
discourse levels; types of semantic meaning; pragmatic factors and
language interpretation; discourse interpretation.
2209551* Comparative and Historical Linguistics
COMP HIST LING
Language
change; concepts of language change in various schools; principles in
language change analysis; types of language change; language typology
and language families with emphasis on the Tai family; proto language
reconstruction methods.
2209621 Linguistic Theories
LING THEORIES
Development
of linguistic theories; concepts and principles of different schools;
factors contributing to emergence of these theories.
2209623* Syntax
SYNTAX
Basic concepts of syntax; analysis of syntactic data in different languages; interesting syntactic phenomena
in different languages; syntactic typology.
2209630
Discourse Analysis
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Syntactic,
semantic, and pragmatic aspects of discourse; discourse as basic unit
for analyses in the various branches of linguistics and related fields;
main concepts in discourse study; text grammar; practice in discourse
analysis.
2209633 Semantics
SEMANTICS
Forms and
meanings of linguistic symbols; conceptualization and lexicalization;
types of meaning; lexical relations; semantic change; meaning at
sentence level; meaning and contexts; phonological factors affecting
meaning.
2209634 Pragmatics
PRAGMATICS
Principles and
basic concepts in pragmatics; speech acts and their classification;
interpretations and analyses of various kinds of utterances;
conversation analysis.
2209641 Linguistic Field Method
LING FIELD METHOD
Theory
and practice of linguistic field methods; techniques for eliciting
language data for several aspects of linguistic analysis with emphasis
on interviewing; recording and analysis of language data collected by
applying the theories learned from other linguistic courses; proposal
of a field research project and presentation of the results.
2209643
Applied Linguistics
APPLIED LING
Application
of linguistic theories in teaching and learning of native and foreign
languages; sociocultural and psychological factors affecting language
learning; language curriculum design; approaches in language teaching.
2209649 Language and Cognition
LANG COGNITION
The
emergence of language and the evolution of human brain, cognition, and
culture; early language and cognitive development; senses, perception,
and semantics; cross-language research on language and cognition.
2209653 Sociolinguistics
SOCIO LING
Major
principles in sociolinguistics; language use in social context;
socially conditioned linguistic variation; language varieties : social
dialects, registers, and styles.
2209654
Psycholinguistics
PSYCHO LING
Linguistic
behavior in relation to psychological factors; language acquisition and
development; language recognition and production.
2209655 Southeast Asian Linguistics
SE ASIAN LING
Distribution
of Southeast Asian languages; genetic classification of these
languages: Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Miao-Yao, Austroasiatic and
Austronesian; characteristics of each family; areal features of
Southeast Asian languages.
2209656 ETHNO LING
Relations
between language and culture; language and thought; language and world
view; ethnosemantics; metaphor; translation; language contact.
2209657
Dialectology
DIALECTOLOGY
Language
delimitation; relationships among language, dialect, and sub-dialect;
development of dialect studies; methodology and linguistic variables in
dialect studies.
2209663* Language Acquisition
LANG ACQUISITION
Language
acquisition by nature and nurture; factors influencing language
acquisition; language development, including acquisition of sounds,
word meanings, sentences and pragmatic abilities; language and the
brain; the critical period hypothesis; second language acquisition;
sign language; attainment of literacy; relationships between language
acquired and culture and cognition.
2209664* Language, Thought and Culture
LANG THOUGHT CULT
Language
and thought; origin of language; human and animal communicative
systems; relationship between language and cognition; linguistic
commonalities and variation across cultures; linguistic universals;
categorization; kinship terms; color terms; spatio-temporal
expressions; symbolizing and metaphorizing; politeness; language and
world view.
2209665* Typology
TYPOLOGY
Typological
classification of languages; universals and diversity of linguistic
structures in languages of the world; comparison of selected linguistic
structures in different languages.
2209667* Lexicology and Lexicography
LEXICOL/LEXICO
Nature
and meanings of words; semantic relations between words; system in the
lexicon; dictionary compilation; types of dictionary; analysis and
evaluation of selected dictionaries.
2209670* Computational Linguistics
COMP LING
Concepts
and theories related to natural language processing; rule-based
and statistical-based natural language processing systems; applications
of natural language processing : word segmentation, part-of-speech
tagging, information retrieval, parsing, machine translation.
2209671 Programming for Natural Language Processing
PROG NLP
Basic
concepts of programming: variables, operators, data structure, control
flow, subroutines; text processing programming practicum.
2209673 Corpus Linguistics
CORPUS LING
Design
and construction of linguistic corpora; the use of corpora in
linguistic and literary research; necessary tools and methodology in
constructing, retrieving, and analyzing linguistic corpora.
2209705 Seminar in Phonetics and Phonology
SEM PHONE PHONO
Issues in phonetics and phonology.
2209724 Seminar in Syntax and Semantics
SEM SYN SEMAN
Issues in syntax and semantics.
2209741
Research Techniques in Linguistics
RES TECH LING
General
characteristics and types of research; characteristics of research in
various branches of linguistics; linguistic theories and research;
research design and procedures in linguistic research.
2209751 Seminar in Comparative and Historical Linguistics
SEM COMP HIST LING
Issues in comparative and historical linguistics.
2209753 Seminar in Sociolinguistics
SEM SOCIO LING
Sociolinguistic theories and selected topics on problems of language use in social context.
2209754* Seminar in Psycholinguistics
SEM PSYCHOLING
Issues in psycholinguistics.
2209755 Seminar in Southeast Asian Linguistics
SEM SEA LING
Issues in Southeast Asian linguistics.
2209756
Seminar in Ethnolinguistics
SEM ETHNO LING
Ethnolinguistic theories and selected topics on the relations of language, culture, thought and world view.
2209757* Selected Topics in Linguistics
SEL TOP LING
Interesting topics in linguistics.
2209758 Seminar in Dialectology
SEM DIALECTOLOGY
Issues in dialectology with emphasis on methodology.
2209765* Seminar in Typology
SEM TYPOLOGY
Issues in typology.
2209770 Seminar in Computational Linguistics
SEM COMPU LING
Issues in computational linguistics.
2209772
Individual Study
INDIVIDUAL STUDY
Thorough study of a specific linguistic topic of the student's interest.
2209773
Directed Readings
DIR RDING
Reading and discussion of selected linguistic topic of the student's interest.
2209774
Directed Research
DIR RES
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